ISBN:
1592401880
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 434 S.
Edition:
1. printing
DDC:
305.896/073
Keywords:
Schwarze. USA
;
Wirtschaft
;
African Americans Social conditions 1975-
;
African Americans Psychology
;
Alienation (Social psychology)
;
Inner cities
;
African Americans Economic conditions
;
Wirtschaftliche Lage
;
Schwarze
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Soziale Situation
;
USA
;
United States Race relations
;
USA
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Soziale Situation
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Abstract:
Four decades after the great victories of the Civil Rights Movement secured equal rights for African-Americans, black America is in crisis. Indeed, by most measurable standards, conditions for many blacks have grown worse since 1965: desperate poverty, incarceration rates, teenage pregnancy and out-of- wedlock births, and educational failures. For years, pundits have blamed these problems on forces outside the black community. But now, in a broad-ranging re-envisioning of the post-Civil Rights black American experience, author McWhorter argues that black America's current problems began with an unintended byproduct of the Civil Rights revolution, a crippling mindset of "therapeutic alienation." This wary stance toward mainstream American culture, although it is a legacy of racism in the past, continues to hold blacks back, and McWhorter traces the poisonous effects of this defeatist attitude. McWhorter puts forth a new vision of black leadership, arguing that both blacks and whites must abolish the culture of victimhood.--From publisher description.
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